Deuteronomy 4:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Cross References

Psalm 105:45

that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 119:4

You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.

Exodus 18:20

Teach them the statutes and instructions and make known to them the way they are to go and the things they are to do.

Jeremiah 11:6

And the Lord said to me: Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

Ezekiel 11:20

so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.

Ezekiel 20:21

But the children rebelled against me; they did not follow my statutes and were not careful to observe my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 36:27

I will put my spirit within you and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.

Ezekiel 37:24

“My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes.

Leviticus 18:5

You shall keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one shall live: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:19

“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your animals breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall you put on a garment made of two different materials.

Leviticus 19:37

You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and observe them: I am the Lord.”

Leviticus 20:8

Keep my statutes and observe them: I am the Lord; I sanctify you.

Leviticus 22:31

“Thus you shall keep my commandments and observe them: I am the Lord.

Matthew 28:20

and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Luke 1:6

Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

John 15:14

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Romans 10:5

Moses writes concerning the righteousness that comes from the law, that “the person who does these things will live by them.”

Deuteronomy 1:3

In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the Israelites just as the Lord had commanded him to speak to them.

Deuteronomy 1:8

See, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.’

Deuteronomy 11:1

“You shall love the Lord your God, therefore, and keep his charge, his decrees, his ordinances, and his commandments always.

Deuteronomy 11:32

you must diligently observe all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.

Deuteronomy 13:1

“If prophets or those who divine by dreams appear among you and show you omens or portents,

Deuteronomy 16:20

Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, so that you may live and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 30:16

If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,

Deuteronomy 30:20

loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him, for that means life to you and length of days, so that you may live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Deuteronomy 4:40

Keep his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today for your own well-being and that of your descendants after you, so that you may long remain in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Deuteronomy 4:45

These are the decrees and the statutes and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites when they had come out of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 4:8

And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?

Deuteronomy 5:1

Moses convened all Israel and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I am addressing to you today; you shall learn them and observe them diligently.

Deuteronomy 5:33

You must follow exactly the path that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land that you are to possess.

Deuteronomy 6:1

“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy,

Deuteronomy 6:24

Then the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our lasting good, so as to keep us alive, as is now the case.

Deuteronomy 7:11

Therefore, observe diligently the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that I am commanding you today.

Deuteronomy 8:1

“The entire commandment that I command you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and increase and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 8:11

“Take care that you do not forget the Lord your God by failing to keep his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes that I am commanding you today.

Deuteronomy 9:1

“Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan today, to go in and dispossess nations larger and mightier than you, great cities, fortified to the heavens,

Joshua 3:9

Joshua then said to the Israelites, “Draw near and hear the words of the Lord your God.”